Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-12
LOCAL BREYITIES.

| Oiafel Is DeinS put upon the railroad
track between this city and Davisville
The lone Echo says that the late election
determined the number of mossbacks there
are IN Sacramento; namely, 1,036.
The K. G. Sargent tract of land near Gait
which contains several thousand acres. is
to be subdivided and offered for sale.
Long association with the filthy China
slough seems to have imbued 1,036 of Sac.
ramento citizens with genuine affection
/, for it.
About LIS A. NJ. Saturday, two pistol
/ shots were fired at Eighth and F streets by
Waterman who thought he espied q
| burglar.
Rev. R. H. Thomas, of Modesto, has &C.
cepted call from the Congregational
church at Gait. He will enter upon his
pastoral duties at once.
So sure as the holidays approach, so sure
90 the chicken thieves come also. Satur-
day night nine specimens of these " birds ~
were stolen from 1909 F street.
| Work is progressing finely on the bridge
| that is to span the Mokelumne river at
New Hope. and it is said it will be com
pleted within the contract time
A 60-foot electric light mast is being
erected at Sixth and L streets. One is
TO be placed at Twenty-fifth and n streets
and another few blocks below
Sacramento is not maritime town. but
there are at least two hundred shops within
her limits that do a rushing business in
selling schooners at five cents EACH
A correspondent, who has been watching
the news from France, suggeststhat if Sadi
Garnet form cabinet he should step down
and let someone else play President
Edward Grogan, the 13-year old son of
Luke Grogan, died very suddenly yesterday
morning at the residence OF his parents on
NJ street, between Eighteenth and Nine
teenth streets.
In Department One of the Superior
Court, Saturday, Frank s. Silva, a native of
the Azores Islands, was admitted to citizen
ship on the testimony of Jos. W. Hughes
and Jessie Waddle
A four-year- and-a-half old son of John
J. Farrell is missing from his home in the
alley, j and X, Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets. When last seen he wore a gray
suit with waist belt and no hat.
The ladies of the Unitarian Society will
give an entertainment at Turner Hall this
| and tomorrow evenings. A varied and in
| teresting exercise will be given. All who
| attend will be highly entertained.
Saturday evening two Cinnamon became
involved in a row IL Chinatown which
| eliminated in one striking the other over
the head with bar of iron. Yung Hop
was the assailant and All Jung the as
saulted.
In Justice Posts Court Saturday. the
| charge of grand larceny preferred against
Albert E. Moseley by his wife was dis
missed at the instance of the prosecuting
| witness. The charge of battery, in the
Police Court, suffered like fate.
On Saturday steamer San joaquin No. 4
arrived from San Francisco, Varuna from
the upper Sacramento, and the D. E.
Knight passed through en- route from San
Francisco to Marysville. Neponset No. 3
sailed for the upper Sacramento.
Frank +. Adriance, young man we'll
and favorably known in this city, died Sat-
urday morning after lingering illness of
consumption. His funeral will take place
this afternoon from the residence of +. II -.
Schardin, Ninth street, between n and O..
W. a. Selkirk, the proprietor of the
Mountain Democrat, has turned the paper
over to his son, w. R. Selkirk. The late
editor of the paper e. NJ. NJ. Bcgardus, has
gone into the real estate business at Placer
vile, and says he proposes to grow up
with the boom.
The citrus fair at Orovills opens on the
Goth instant. Governor Waterman is to
deliver the opening address. Addresses
will also be delivered by ]. X. Luttrell, w.
9. Hendricks, John P. Irish, l.. D. Freer,
John Bidwell. NJ. NJ. Estee, A. T. Hatch
and c. S. Young.
One night last week daring thief killed
a fine young steer of Mr. Whitaker's on the
Grasshopper ranch, about mile and half
north of Gait. The young beef was feed
ing at a straw stack and was shot III the
head, disemboweled decapitated and the
carcass carried away.
Manhood, from Hygeinic Standpoint"
is the topic of the opening medical lecture
to young men this evening at Young Mems
Christian Association Hall by DR.. Wander
beck, of San Francisco, who has fine rec
ord as a good talker to young men. All
young men will be welcome.
On Saturday last a Chinaman came to
the police station and swore to a COM
plant charging another Celestial, named
Tong Ock, with burglary. Tong he claims,
stole number of sacks of potatoes from
under Melyin's blacksmith shop, on l
street, which complainant had stored there.
The novel manner adopted by the Red
House to decorate the different depart
ments of their establishment with Christ
mas trees, as we'll as the method of dis
llOlludy EOOuS cOnSlQ-
cradle attention. he plan is said to be
entirely new on this coast although OBJ.
served in the East.
The Nevada Transcript says: Nearly
every train arriving here for several weeks
past has brought in Fasteners looking for
foothill fruit lands. The best part of it is
that the most of them make purchases
with view to improving the tracts they
get. There will be rush this way be-
fore the end of 1888.
The sureties on the bond of General
John McComb, who takes charge of San
Quentin Prison as Warden on the 1st of
January, are: C. f. Crocker, General w
H. Dimond, James Moffitt, of Blake, Moi
fit & Towne, o. f. Wiley, dealer in car
riages at 81 Montgomery street, and w.
w. Stow, each qualifying for $25 600
The town is full of societies, but one
more is to be added on or about January
LIST. 1t is a matrimonial bureau to be or
ganiZed by the young ladies. 1t is said they
mean business and are making prepare
tons for an aggressive Campaign during
leap year. They propose righting all the
matrimonial wrongs of the past four years.
Articles of incorpo, alton of the Wood
land Improvement Company have been
filed with the Secretary of State The cap
ital stock is 100000, $4,000 of which has
been paid up. 1t is to run ten years, and
the object is to buy, sell and improve prop
erty in and near Woodland. 1t Will be a
close corporation the stock being held by
the incorporates. They are w. w. Brow
nell, A. ]. Hall, w. NJ. Coward, C. w.
Bush and q. c. Boardman and E. Pope, of
San Francisco.
| Mrs. Mary J. Lohse, President of the
Oakland Catholic Ladies Aid Society, and
Miss Mary Lyons, Junior Vice-President
of the same, organized Branch No. 4, of
| Sacramento December 18th, at Y. NJ. L.
| Hall. The President gave an exemplifca-
| ton of the work of the Order and instruc-
tons in the same. The objects of the SO
| ciety are benevolence toward the poor of
| any class and to increase sociability among
: its members. Fifty-five charter members
| signed the roll.
A dispatch dated at Washington says
!" 1t is gen orally understood here that John
Marley, formerly Private Secretary for
|